Eye Fi Adds Facebook Uploading

Eye Fi is an SD card with a neat trick up its sleeve: it wirelessly transmits video from your camera or camcorder to your computer and, as of today, to a Facebook account. The Eye Fi video card is available in two configurations: the Eye Fi Share Video ($79) sends both JPEG photos and video files to a computer on a wireless network and to one of 25 sharing sites such as Kodak Gallery or YouTube. It's a 4GB card.

The Eye Fi Explore ($99) adds the ability to send photos over Wayport wireless hotspots (one year free, after that you'll need a subscription) as well as the ability to "geotag" (add location data) to the video files you're capturing.

Eye Fi caught people's attention for its wireless photo capabilities, but it only recently added video. I was a fan of the original Eye Fi card for still pictures and will be testing the video card shortly. The nice thing about the Eye Fi concept is that it automates two important functions - getting video off your camcorder and backing that video up to an online service (even though you should make a high quality backup on a DVD or external drive).

(Photo courtesy Eye Fi)